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Argentina Wine Tasting

Ambitious restaurants and stylish hotels draw well-heeled travelers.

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Rating: 5 out of 5 by EveryTrail members

Difficulty: Easy

Duration: Multiple days

Overview:
Wine-making talent and investment money have been streaming in from Europe and beyond, dramatically altering Argentina’s vinous... more » landscape with hundreds of acres of new vineyards, several dozen new wineries, and entire categories of new wines. less «

Tips:
Transportation to Mendoza, Argentina: Mendoza is accessible through Buenos Aires, but many itineraries require a mad dash across the... more » capital from the city’s Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) International Airport to the regional Jorge Newberry Aeropark to make a tight connection. The smarter option is to fly through Santiago, Chile, to Mendoza. From there, Cafayate and the wine region of Salta are a full day’s drive over a wide range of roads. You can catch a flight directly to Salta in Buenos Aires. Both regions are best visited from November through April, the Southern Hemisphere’s late spring to early fall. less «

Owner and enologist José Luis Mounier worked 18 years at Bodegas Etchart, Salta’s largest producer, before planting grapes on a slope he’d cleared. He has Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, and the brutishly tannic Tannat, but his best wine is white, a floral but flinty Torrontés. It might seem strange that a white grape would thrive... More near the Tropic of Capricorn, but Salta mitigates its latitude with altitude. Still, its grapes get very ripe, and sugar translates into alcohol. Somehow, Mounier manages to keep his Torrontés balanced and lithe, smelling of rose petals.

Address:
El Divisadero
Salta
Argentina

Phone:
54-386-842-2129Less

4. Bodega San Pedro de Yacochuya

Winemaker Michel Rolland has created superb Malbec and Cabernet blends at this boutique Argentinian winery.

Address:
Provincial Route 2, Km 6
Cafayate
Argentina

Phone:
54-387-431-9439

5. Bodegas Salentein

Located in the Uco Valley, this strikingly modern winery complex founded by a Dutch tycoon, includes a lavish art museum and a gift shop that sells a $750 set of wine aromatics in thimble-size vials.

Address:
Ruta 89, Los Arboles, Tunuyán
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-114-131-1100

6. Cavas Wine Lodge

Accessible only by a dirt road and set in the midst of a working vineyard, the hotel has contemporary casitas, the walls of which are rounded like mushrooms, and provocative art fills its public spaces. Dine alfresco on beef empanadas and grilled lamb and drink the Argentinean wines.

Easily the city’s finest hotel, this whitewashed, seven-floor building has a restored Spanish neoclassical exterior, a colonial–era inner courtyard with gurgling fountain, a newly expanded gym and spa space, and a privileged position on downtown’s Plaza Independencia. The traditional façade is just that. Inside its rotating glass doors,... More however, the modernity and efficiency that defines the Hyatt brand reveal themselves, most immediately in the huge digital-art piece by Fernando Hocevar that greets visitors in the lobby. The 186 unfussy, sleekly appointed rooms and suites—which look onto either the Andes foothills or the hotel’s expansive gardens—are also decorated with photographs and sculptures by local artists. King-size beds are afluff with plush feather pillows and lavish duvet (a pleasure on those cold Andean nights), and the 100-square-foot bathrooms make generous use of marble and glass.

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